biography
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Bork, Robert H(eron)
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| lived:
| (1927– )
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| biography:
| Legal scholar and judge, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. After briefly practising law (1954–62), he joined the faculty of Yale Law School (1962–81), where he became known for his expertise in constitutional and anti-trust law. He was US solicitor general (1971–7) and acting attorney general (1973–4), and was appointed to the federal court of appeals for the District of Columbia (1982–8). President Reagan nominated him to the Supreme Court in 1987, but his conservative views led to his being rejected by a controversial US Senate vote. He stepped down from the bench in 1988 to write and lecture on judicial and public policy for the American Enterprise Institute. He published The Tempting of America: the Political Seduction of the Law (1990) and Slouching Towards Gomorrah (1996). |
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